Where Has The Constitution Failed Us?

One thing is certain, if the Executive Branch is openly breaking the law every day and neither the Congress nor the Court is taking any action we may safely say the Constitution has failed. So the question is where has the Constitution failed us? I mean that as a serious question. If I had to give what I believe to be the reason I'd say its because the built-in 'checks and balances' rely on a presumed competition between the three branches rather than require an accounting by each to the others in the face of mandatory impeachment.

We did so by allowing it to be relegated to "a quaint, goddamn piece of paper."

The problem with a democracy is that, ultimately, every single problem and flaw comes back to the People. Collectively, American has not only not punished our elected officials for malfeasance, dereliction and treason, we have rewarded them by voting them back into office.

And the upcoming Presidential election is shaping up to be, yet again, the same malfeasance on our part.

If a cop sees a murder occurring, and does nothing to stop it or
to apprehend the murderer, it's not the "law against murder"
which has failed us.

If the American people truly wanted the Constitution to be upheld they would make it so. Every trucker would stop trucking and every clerk would stop clerking. If the American People wanted to they could make it happen. But they can't be bothered..

Mass media journalism is dead, and we can blame the takeover of our major media sources by corporate interests for that.

Our election process is subverted by the high cost of buying exposure. The financing of political campaigns is nothing but legalized bribery. In addition, the privatization of the voting process has compromised even the counting of votes.

And MONEY makes loopholes in our Constitution big enough to drive Halliburton through...

were forseen by the writers.

whod imagine corruption would reach this point ?

One grievous flaw of the Constitution was not to have healthcare in the Bill of Rights. Thomas Jefferson fought fiercely to put it in, but was not able to convince his co-creators to include it. He foretold of the potential tyranny of not including it and he was right. Sick people can't fight for their freedom. When the profit motive entered the equation, attacking the health of Americans has become a goal. Cancer is a great example. Chemical companies poison us with pesticides, fluorides and noxious air, make us sick and then sell chemo treatments for the problem they caused in the first place. Then they control the agencies that are supposed to police them. It is the only business that gets to create their customer base.